Time Warner Cable will provide free long-distance calls and e-greetings to guests of Thursday’s Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner. The cable company, a longtime supporter of the free Thanksgiving dinner, will offer the free calls and e-greetings via its International One Price calling plan and its Road Runner broadband service. It’s also setting up an area […]
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Tesoro CEO Bruce Smith. Tesoro Corp. stock has been battered of late, along with most other refiners. That has affected Tesoro CEO Bruce Smith in a big way. Smith was forced to sell 168,000 shares of Tesoro stock last week that were held by Goldman Sachs as collateral for a loan from the brokerage firm, […]
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Fast-casual sandwich chain Spicy Pickle Franchising Inc. said it will open its first San Antonio restaurant early next year. A franchisee with a seven-store development will deal open the eatery in the University Square shopping center at DeZevala Road and Interstate 10. Architectural planning is already underway, the company said. Denver-based Spicy Pickle serves sub […]
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Apparently we’ve got some pretty nice digs in the Alamo City. Auto club AAA today announced which hotels earned its prestigious Four Diamond Rating for 2009 — and San Antonio leads Texas cities with the most. Twenty of the 73 Texas hotels making the list are located here. The list includes the Crowne Plaza San […]
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Valero Energy Corporation is no longer requriing all employees to volunteer. “There used to be a corporate culture that everybody had to volunteer 24 hours or their name was on a list,” Max Kiesling, president of Valero’s volunteer council, told a recent NAWBO-SA group over lunch. “We’re getting rid of that so employees are volunteering […]
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The price of oil and gas has declined, and that’s starting to hurt Texas’ economy. But Texas’ rig count stands at 891, a level that means the Lone Star State has about 48 percent of all active land rigs in the country. In the last 12 months, Texas’ total production was 342 million barrels of […]
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Local investors looking to fill up their holiday season with conference calls have yet another one to tune in. San Antonio’s Kinetic Concepts Inc. will present at the Piper Jaffray 20th Annual Health Care Conference on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 in New York. Rich Cockrell, the medical-equipment firm’s investor relations honcho, will provide a company […]
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San Antonio-based refiner Tesoro Corp. said today in a regulatory filing that Otto Schwethelm, its senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, has left the company, effective immediately. Tesoro didn’t give a reason for the departure in its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A spokesperson was not available for immediate comment. […]
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Our friends at the IRS have set the deduction rate for mileage for 2009 at 55 cents for business miles. That’s up from the 50.5 cents for the first half of last year, but a decline from the emergency rate of 58.5 cents a mile for the second half of the year. Medical or moving-related […]
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